Use your FSA for LASIK in 2022 – Unlimited Balance Carryover
Every winter holiday, we get an influx of patients who want to come in to use their HSA’s or FSA’s towards their LASIK procedures before the year ends. Well, there are new changes that affect Flex Spending Accounts or “FSA’s” that will give a lot of our patients a great option! First – a quick…
Read MoreCallie’s Road To LASIK: This Will Forever Be One of the Best Days of My Life
Callie, an optician at a great optical and optometric practice in College Station, the Eye Care Center, had LASIK surgery with Dr. Stephen Slade on May 19th. Callie shared her entire journey with us on the Eye Care Center’s Instagram page, from pre op to post op, she walked us through her ‘Road to LASIK’….
Read MoreLASIK Patient Memories: Slade & Baker Staff Blog
We decided to poll the very people who get to spend time with our patients every day and who are a huge part of the magic that happens during LASIK days at Slade & Baker Vision: our beloved staff! We share these with each other while at lunch or in the office, but time passes,…
Read MoreThe First LASIK Surgery in the US: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Slade
As staff members in a clinical practice where the FIRST doctor who did LASIK in the US works, there are several questions we have wondered about in the last several years, and we finally sat Dr. Stephen Slade down to get some answers to our questions! We are delighted to share this insightful interview…
Read MoreLASIK vs. Contact Lenses: Which is Riskier?
Here is a topic that we deal with on a daily basis, and perhaps you have even considered it once or twice. We wanted to have an open discussion with our readers about LASIK and how they feel about it in relation to wearing contacts, as that is usually a day-to-day struggle. Because contact lenses…
Read MoreLove Swimming but Hate Contact Lenses?
Have you ever tried swimming in a pool with your contact lenses on? WHAT A MESS! We recently all related with an Olympic athlete (which does NOT happen often) from London, Ontario, Maggie Mac Neil, when we saw the image in this Daily Hive Article. We loved it so much, we shared the article along…
Read MoreGolf & LASIK: The Need for Crisp Vision
If you’ve ever played golf or attempted to, it goes without saying, if your vision isn’t great, following that tiny ball into the abyss is NOT easy and crisp, so having clear vision is a must. It dawned on us, since so much of the world is watching golf right now during golf season, and…
Read MoreLASIK Price Shopping: The Ultimate Guide
When we think of ‘price shopping’, the average person thinks of car shopping or even house shopping, with both of these things being on the higher-priced side of purchases that people make in their lifetimes. However, in our line of work, price shopping is actually EXTREMELY Common, with patients calling multiple LASIK surgery practices to…
Read MoreThe Best LASIK Candidate or Laser Vision Candidate
It’s spring, which means many places are warming up and soon enough we will all want to be able to be outside, enjoying the sun and some water activities…and hopefully, with the help of the COVID vaccines and options out there, many of you will get to travel again and see new places when it’s…
Read MoreFinally, Something We Can All Agree On: LASIK Satisfaction Rates
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In the current world we live in, with the current political landscape which constantly feels like no one can get along, it is comforting to know that there is something that the vast majority of people can actually agree upon… Apparently, it’s LASIK. There is a 95.4% patient satisfaction rate with LASIK According to one…
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